Principles of Comparative Politics (International Student Edition)

3. Revised Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5063-8979-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc

Buch, Englisch, 888 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1383 g

Principles of Comparative Politics offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. In this thoroughly revised Third Edition, students now have an even better guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. The new edition retains a focus on the enduring questions with which scholars grapple, the issues about which consensus has started to emerge, and the tools comparativists use to get at the complex problems in the field.

Updates to this edition include a new intuitive take on statistical analyses and a clearer explanation of how to interpret regression results; a thoroughly-revised chapter on culture and democracy that includes a more extensive discussion of cultural modernization theory and a new overview of survey methods for addressing sensitive topics; and a revised chapter on dictatorships that incorporates a principal-agent framework for understanding authoritarian institutions. Examples from the gender and politics literature have been incorporated into various chapters, and empirical examples and data on various types of institutions have been updated. The authors have thoughtfully streamlined chapters to better focus attention on key topics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golder, Matt

Clark, William Roberts

Golder, Sona N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. What Is Comparative Politics?

Chapter 1. Introduction

Overview of the Book

The Approach Taken in This Book

Key Concepts

Chapter 2. What Is Science?

Introduction
What Is Science?

The Scientific Method
An Introduction to Logic

Myths about Science

Conclusion
Key Concepts

Problems
Chapter 3. What Is Politics?

The Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Game

Solving the Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Game

Evaluating the Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Game

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Preparation for the Problems

Problems

Part II. The Modern State: Democracy or Dictatorship?

Chapter 4. The Origins of the Modern State

What Is a State?

Somalia and Syria: Two Failed States

The Contractarian View of the State

The Predatory View of the State

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Preparation for the Problems

Problems

Chapter 5. Democracy and Dictatorship: Conceptualization and Measurement

Democracy and Dictatorship in Historical Perspective

Classifying Democracies and Dictatorships

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Chapter 6. The Economic Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship

Classic Modernization Theory

A Variant of Modernization Theory

Some More Empirical Evidence

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Appendix: An Intuitive Take on Statistical Analyses

Problems

Chapter 7. Cultural Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship

Classical Cultural Arguments: Mill and Montesquieu

Does Democracy Require a Civic Culture?

Religion and Democracy

Experiments and Culture

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Chapter 8. Democratic Transitions

Bottom-Up Transitions to Democracy

Top-Down Transitions to Democracy

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Chapter 9. Democracy or Dictatorship: Does it Make a Difference?

The Effect of Regime Type on Economic Growth

The Effect of Regime Type on Government Performance

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Part III. Varieties of Democracy and Dictatorship

Chapter 10. Varieties of Dictatorship

A Common Typology of Authoritarian Regimes

The Two Fundamental Problems of Authoritarian Rule

Selectorate Theory

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Chapter 11. Problems with Group Decision Making

Problems with Group Decision Making

Arrow’s Theorem

Conclusion
Key Concepts

Problems
APPENDIX: STABILITY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAJORITY-RULE VOTING

Chapter 12. Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Democracies

Classifying Democracies

Making and Breaking Governments in Parliamentary Democracies

Making and Breaking Governments in Presidential Democracies

Making and Breaking Governments in Semi-Presidential Democracies

A Unifying Framework: Principal-Agent and Delegation Problems

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems
Chapter 13. Elections and Electoral Systems

Elections and Electoral Integrity

Electoral Systems

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Chapter 14. Social Cleavages and Party Systems

Political Parties: What Are They, and What Do They Do?

Party Systems

Where Do Parties Come From?

Types of Parties: Social Cleavages and Political Identity Formation

Number of Parties: Duverger’s Theory

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Chapter 15. Institutional Veto Players

Federalism

Bicameralism

Constitutionalism

Veto Players

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems
Part IV. Varieties of Democracy and Political Outcomes

Chapter 16. Consequences of Democratic Institutions

Majoritarian or Consensus Democracy?

The Effect of Political Institutions on Fiscal Policy

Electoral Laws, Federalism, and Ethnic Conflict

Presidentialism and Democratic Survival

Conclusion

Key Concepts

Problems

Über Autor(innen)

Golder, Matt
Matt Golder was previously assistant professor of political science at Florida State University. He is the author of articles which have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, and Political Analysis among other journals. He has taught classes on comparative politics, advanced industrialized democracies, quantitative methods, and European politics at the University of Iowa, Florida State University, and the University of Essex.

Golder, Sona N.
Sona Nadenichek Golder was previously assistant professor of political science at Florida State University. She is the author of The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation, and has published articles in the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and European Union Politics. She teaches courses on European politics, democracies and dictatorships, comparative institutions, game theory, and comparative politics at Florida State University and was a Mentor-in-Residence for the 2007 Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Program at UCLA.

Clark, William Roberts
William Roberts Clark is head of the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University and a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of Capitalism, Not Globalism, and his articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, and European Union Politics, among other journals. He has been teaching at a wide variety of public and private schools (William Paterson College, Rutgers University, Georgia Tech, Princeton, New York University, and the University of Michigan) for more than three decades.